My Goals
Goals goals goals... That seems to be the focus these days. A number of .Net developers who are in the limelight(JP Boodhoo, Justice Gray, Scott Hanselman) have taken a brave step forward and committed to their goals in public forum. I to have decided to do the same. The following is a List<IGoal> of goals.
- Become more proficient at test driven development.
- Expand my knowledge of domain driven design.
- Become more proficient with resharper.
- Watch DnrTv
- Continue to read all those wonderful blogs that I have listed on my sidebar.
- Learn and appreciate the time that I get to spend with JP Boodhoo. That's right JP Boodhoo has been doing consulting work for MediaLogic. He has provide our team with lots of great insight and knowledge.
- Learn how to write a Nant script. I've seen a Nant script or two but never created my own.
- Learn more about continuous integration. MediaLogic should have a CI box soon.
- Expand my knowledge of design patterns. More importantly I need to expose myself to as many solutions as I can. By being aware of more than one solution to a problem I will be able to select the best solution for a problem rather than trying to adapt the problem to the solution.
- Read books
- Domain Driven Design By Eric Evans
- Head First Design Patterns
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture By Martin Fowler
- Re-read Test Driven Development by Kent Beck
- The Pragmatic Programmer By Andrew Hunt
- Code Complete by Streven McConnell
- MCTS 70-536 and 70-528
- Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams
- The Elements of C#
- CLR via C#
As you can tell this list is very lengthy. Fortunately many of these goals are related to one another. In order to conquer these goals I will have to devise some type of routine. As long as I can stick to some type of schedule I should be able to complete these goals without a problem. A wise friend of mine recently enlightened me to the idea that perfection can achieved through consistency. For example, If I were consistently sad one could say that I have achieved perfection at being sad. Instead of striving for perfection aim for consistency. Thanks Mista Mo
